Re: Linux 2.6.36

[Mihai DonÈu]

On Thursday 21 October 2010 00:01:27 Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So it's a week later than I wanted (plus all the days that added up
> from me having a few 8-day weeks during this release window), but it's
> out there now.
> 
> The delay means that the merge window that opens now would cover the
> upcoming kernel summit. However, I really hope that everybody sends me
> their patches and pull requests _before_ KS even starts. And if you're
> affected by the kernel summit you probably won't have time during it
> to finalize anything that week anyway, especially for those staying
> for plumbers afterwards, and...
> 
> So I'm going to hope that we could perhaps even do the 2.6.37 -rc1
> release and close the merge window the Sunday before KS opens. Since
> 2.6.36 was longer than usual (at least it felt that way), I wouldn't
> mind having a 2.6.37 that is shorter than usual.
> 
> But holler if this really screws up any plans. Ten days instead of two
> weeks? Let's see if it's even reasonably realistic.
> 
> Anyway, I'm appending the shortlog since -rc8. At least it's
> noticeably shorter than the -rc7 and -rc8 logs were, and most of it
> really is pretty small.
> 
> For the bigger picture of changes since 2.6.35, see for example
> 
>    http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_36
> 
> but it may be worth pointing out that we ended up disabling the new
> fanotify system calls because people were still unsure about the
> interfaces. Better let the interface discussion cook a bit longer than
> release with a bad interface that we need to redo.

I get a rather big amount of 'b44 ssb1:0: eth0: powering down PHY' messages in 
dmesg shortly after booting:

# grep -c 'b44 ssb1:0: eth0: powering down PHY' /var/log/messages
124566
# grep -c 'b44 ssb1:0: eth0: late interrupt' /var/log/messages
1141

The same thing happens when resuming from suspend to RAM. This is accompanied 
by kworker/0:3 (?) taking 100% CPU time for 1 min or so. I'm running 2.6.35 
now, so I might be wrong about the name of the kernel thread.

Thanks,

-- 
Mihai DonÈu

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00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
02:01.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. Cardbus bridge (rev 21)
02:01.4 FireWire (IEEE 1394): O2 Micro, Inc. Firewire (IEEE 1394) (rev 02)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g (rev 01)